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RE: RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
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David Kantor <[email protected]>
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RE: RE: st: A bug in egen and gen?
Date
Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:09:49 -0500
At 11:41 AM 2/18/2011, you wrote:
Maarten,
Out of curiosity, do you know the maximum difference that the
-recast- procedure allows to recast a variable from double to float?
Junlin
If I understand the question correctly, the answer is that recast,
without -force-, will not take effect if there is any loss in precision.
--David
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